netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] indirect call wrappers: helpers to speed-up indirect calls of builtin

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Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 15:25:49 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] indirect call wrappers: helpers to speed-up
 indirect calls of builtin



On 11/29/2018 03:00 PM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> This header define a bunch of helpers that allow avoiding the
> retpoline overhead when calling builtin functions via function pointers.
> It boils down to explicitly comparing the function pointers to
> known builtin functions and eventually invoke directly the latter.
> 
> The macro defined here implement the boilerplate for the above schema
> and will be used by the next patches.
> 
> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 77 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h b/include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..57e82b4a166d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +#ifndef _LINUX_INDIRECT_CALL_WRAPPER_H
> +#define _LINUX_INDIRECT_CALL_WRAPPER_H
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
> +
> +/*
> + * INDIRECT_CALL_$NR - wrapper for indirect calls with $NR known builtin
> + *  @f: function pointer
> + *  @name: base name for builtin functions, see INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE_$NR
> + *  @__VA_ARGS__: arguments for @f
> + *
> + * Avoid retpoline overhead for known builtin, checking @f vs each of them and
> + * eventually invoking directly the builtin function. Fallback to the indirect
> + * call
> + */
> +#define INDIRECT_CALL_1(f, name, ...)					\
> +	({								\
> +		f == name ## 1 ? name ## 1(__VA_ARGS__) :		\

              likely(f == name ## 1) ? ...

> +				 f(__VA_ARGS__);			\
> +	})
> +#define INDIRECT_CALL_2(f, name, ...)					\
> +	({								\
> +		f == name ## 2 ? name ## 2(__VA_ARGS__) :		\

             likely(f == name ## 2) ? ...


> +				 INDIRECT_CALL_1(f, name, __VA_ARGS__);	\
> +	})
> +
>